Word: grass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson: staffers blow off classes to attend and report on Undergraduate Council subcommittee meetings, at which the length of the grass in Harvard Yard will be discussed...
Budge's eccentric meditations appear relatively tame once Grass (John Bottoms) plows into the room, dragging an I.V. stand with bottles pumping fluids into his every orifice. Grass claims to suffer from "heavy water." After some banter about medical exotica like "dangling paraphenalia" and "polyester blood," a nurse comes to take Grass back to the "Day Room" in the psychiatric wing. Then this nurse is taken away as a looney...
BOTTOMS' PERFORMANCE is perhaps the most riveting and outrageous, as he takes both of his characters, Grass in the first act and the nebbishy Freddy of Act Two, to the edge and beyond. Nevertheless, the play never loses balance because DeLillo has spread out hilarious lines quite evenly among his insane asylum inmates. Derrah and Geidt start off by creating an atmosphere of subdued surrealism that clues us in to the weirdness ahead. As a human television in Act Two, Derrah switches channels effortlessly. Sitting to the side, looking straight ahead, and wrapped in a straitjacket, he transfers his voice...
...have been striking for more than a year now and are still being ignored by their union. Even though this lock out, a culmination of Reagan's union-busting philosophy, is slowly being forgotten, the strike may bring new life to the labor movement by encouraging the development of grass roots labor organizations...
...dreams. In one of them, he runs up a ravine with steep rock walls on three sides, pursued by a rhino. He claws at the rock walls, trying to escape, hanging by his fingertips. He wakes up screaming. In another dream, a lion is dragging Moses through deep grass. Moses desperately clutches at the grass with his fingers, but the grass comes up in clumps, and Moses is dragged...